Debates

In order to be a just society, should animals have rights? I will argue Affirmative, but I am a novice debater, so I'd prefer someone who isn't going to annihilate me, I'd rather learn from this debate....

My opponent will argue that Animals do not have rights. Here are my examples why they do have rights. First- Animals have "similar" rights as we do they may not be able to vote or do certain things that we humans can but here is some rights, they have the right to breath, they have right to live, the right to not be killed, and the right to not be held in captivity. Second- They have the right to do as they please, meaning they can think and do whatever action they choose....

1. The basic moral rights of at least some non-human animals are in no way inferior to our own. 2. Non-human mammals have essentially the same right not to be harmed or killed as we do. 3. Normal, mature mammals are not only sentinent but have other mental capabilities as well. 4. These include the capacities for emotion, memory, belief, desire, the us of general concepts, intentional action, a sense of the future, and some degree of self-awareness. 5. They are not only alive in the biologic...

Ok, hold on for a second. The people who vote no clearly have no insight into what happens to these animals, so let me give some detail. For example Fois Gras a style of duck is often done by force feeding the duck their entire life. Watch a video, then come back and vote because anyone who does this will without a doubt vote for animal rights. But if there is some, odd human being who votes no, then I ask you to look at a video produced by PETA. They show the true monstrosity of animal abuse an...

I am challenging Billytheforum guy to a debate about animal rights from a response about the opinion topic "Animals in cages (yes) or set free (no)". I am against animals rights and all organisations for it quite simply put I believe in unregulated animal abuse and testing. I will be organizing my three main arguments in the form of questions, they are: 1. Why should animals not have rights? 2. Why are animals property? 3. Do animals feel anything like us humans do? 1. "Why shou...

Animals are the ones who save our lives not the other way around. If you EVER learned something new, it will be about how animals can also have emotional attachments. A man raised a lion cub and when the lion grew too old, it had to be kept in a reserve. Later on, the man visited the reserve, saying he wanted to see his old friend. The workers their said that the lion probably won't remember him. But what happened? Oh, yes! The lion, now the alpha of his pack, ran toward the man to nuzzle him! S...